The machine can be found in a shopping center at Sredny Prospekt V.O. 36, located on the city’s Vasilevsky Island.

The installation is likely a result of Bitlish’s push for more ATMs in Russia, which due to legal concerns has hosted only a couple of machines. The exchange demonstrated its fleet of ATMs at a recent conference in Moscow, but as yet no official information is available regarding any of their locations. No Russian machines are currently on CoinATMRadar’s listings.

A request for confirmation and more information about the ATM did not immediately return a reply from Bitlish.

The installation in itself is a sign of changing times regarding Russia’s relationship with cryptocurrency. Having previously de facto banned it as a “surrogate” alternative to the ruble, the country’s central bank this year signaled a new perspective. Constructive regulation, it said, would be its policy going forward, and an all-out ban would be counterproductive if even possible.